Good Riddance! Alaska Serial Killer Robert Hansen Dead at 75

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Alaska Department of Corrections spokesperson Sherrie Daigle confirms that Hansen, who had recently been transferred to Anchorage in declining health, died at about 2 a.m. Thursday at Alaska Regional Hospital.


Hansen, who operated a bakery in Anchorage, became known as the "Butcher Baker" after his conviction in a February 1984 on numerous charges ranging from assault to kidnapping. A judge sentenced him to serve 461 years in prison, in addition to a life sentence.

Authorities believe Hansen had at least 17 and as many as 21 victims between 1971 and 1983. Although he only admitted to 14, the bodies of two others were found after police seized an aviation map of Southcentral Alaska with the markings of 17 locations corresponding with victims' remains.

As late as 2003, troopers were seeking to identify “Eklutna Annie,” a woman found in the area and believed to have been killed by Hansen nearly a quarter-century earlier.

A Hollywood film crew visited the state in 2011 to make a movie on Hansen's killings, "The Frozen Ground." The resulting picture, starring John Cusack as Hansen and Nicolas Case as an Alaska State Trooper investigating the case, was released in 2013.

Daigle says Hansen spent most of his time in Alaska custody since Oct. 27, 1983 at the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward. His cause of death will be determined by the state medical examiner.

Channel 2’s Dan Carpenter contributed information to this story.